Re: [SLOF] [PATCH v4] slof/fs/packages/disk-label.fs: improve checking for DOS boot partitions

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On Wed, 22 May 2024, at 18:55, Kautuk Consul wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On 2024-05-20 19:03:25, Alexey Kardashevskiy wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > On Tue, 14 May 2024, at 19:08, Kautuk Consul wrote:
> > > Hi Alexey/Segher,
> > > > > :-). But this is the only other path that doesn't have a CATCH
> > > > > like the do-load subroutine in slof/fs/boot.fs. According to Segher
> > > > > there shouldn't ever be a problem with throw because if nothing else the
> > > > > outer-most interpreter loop's CATCH will catch the exception. But I
> > > > > thought to cover this throw in read-sector more locally in places near
> > > > > to this functionality. Because the outermost FORTH SLOF interpreter loop is not
> > > > > really so related to reading a sector in disk-label.fs.
> > > > > 
> > > > Alexey/Segher, so what should be the next steps ?
> > > > Do you find my explanation above okay or should I simply remove these
> > > > CATCH blocks ? Putting a CATCH block in count-dos-logical-partitions is
> > > > out of the question as there is already a CATCH in do-load in
> > > > slof/fs/boot.fs. This CATCH block in the open subroutine is actually to
> > > > prevent the exception to be caught at some non-local place in the code.
> > > 
> > > Any ideas on how we proceed with this now ?
> > 
> > 
> > Ufff, I dropped the ball again :-/
> > 
> > Sorry but if read-sector cannot read a sector because of misconfiguration (not because some underlying hardware error) - this tells me that this should be handled when we open the block device which we knows the size of in sectors and if it is not an integer - barf there. Or it is not possible? In general, when you tweak libvirt xml like this - there are plenty of ways to break SLOF, this one is not worth of another exception throwing imho. Thanks,
> 
> Sure, no issues. Just thought to send in this patch as we encountered
> this problem. Will abandon this email chain now. Thanks again! :-)

btw I was wondering what if you passed 513 as sector size, for example, have you tried? ;)




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